Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson@algekalipso• almost 2 years ago

I genuinely think that one of the things that distinguishes how people think is found in the *topological diversity* of their attention field lines. There are some thoughts, some visions, some ways of seeing that require either a _minimum_ of topological complexity _or_ a very specific topology. And if you don't currently have such an internal topologically structured mode of attention available to you, it is literally impossible to *get it*. I think this is why some people *get* the internal referent of *qualia* and some people don't. For example, when someone says: "What do you mean the 'blueness' of blue? Blue is just a frequency of light!" I think they are missing a specific kind of internal knot of attentional dynamics that allows them to _land_ on the blueness of blue as an object of attention. Instead, their attention goes to semantic content and elements of their world model, and never on the phenomenal character of their experience. It's an internal topology of attention issue. And this often changes on psychedelics, for example. These compounds, generally, increase the topological diversity of your field, allowing you to let your attention land in very novel ways. Not only knots, but cw-complexes and higher dimensional topologies. I believe this is a key non-trivial effect of psychedelics, and essential to understand how the mind works. You may not get it right away, but believe me, there is something here to be understood 😋